14:26I Learned More in 2 Hours Than 20 Years - How to Wheelie
Soup Moto has ridden dirt bikes since he was four years old, moved up through a 65, an 85 and a 125, and still could not do a real wheelie, only what he calls a crappy power wheelie done without ever covering the rear brake. So he asked his friend LoMoto, a supermoto stunt rider, for a lesson, and under two hours later he was hitting balance point and riding with a hand off the bars. The technique that unlocked it is the shift lock: hold your left toe up under the shift lever for the entire wheelie, which keeps the bike in second and anchors your body to the machine so your hands can go extremely light, because a death grip on the bars is an unintended steering input. Around it sits a full stack of cues, second gear instead of first because a spinning front wheel is what holds you steady side to side, taking the free play out of the rear brake before you pop the clutch so the pedal is live, sliding back on the seat, never pulling yourself forward like a pull-up, and reading the fork tubes against the horizon as a balance point gauge that doubles as a speed trend indicator. This page rebuilds the whole lesson cue by cue, in order, with the drill ladder LoMoto actually used and a before and after ledger of every rider input.